I arrived slightly sweaty to my next destination. I tried to sprint there in hopes of getting a new skill but oh well. Looking around I notice the same gray stone from the rest of the dungeon with… is that a pillow? Yeah there is a purple pillow with gold tassels on the edges in the middle of the small room. Next to it there is a crystal ball about the size of my hand. When I start to walk closer I notice a sign that says ‘lay your hand on the crystal to determine your ability’.
I sat on the pillow and put the crystal ball on my lap. Laying my hand on the ball I feel something intangible leave my body. The crystal lights up, you guessed it, pure obsidian black. I sighed in resignation knowing this would inevitably be the result and that this is my life now. Sitting up I see a sign that appeared out of nowhere. It read ‘Huh. Really should have seen that coming. I don’t know how a void affinity works for mortals so you’re going to have to figure this one out yourself. Just meditate or something.-Iva ’
That’s as good advice as any I’ve gotten so far. Plopping my ass down back on the pillow I try to clear my mind. Clearing your mind is a lot harder than people give it credit for, especially when you're an anxious mess barely held together by a void entity that you can’t understand. HMMMMM CLEAR MIND. Yeah this isn’t working so I’m going to try something new. Asking for help. From that same void entity. Hey void buddy can you do me a solid and help me meditate. I don’t even know if that’s something it can help with but hey worth a shot at least.
With surprising force my mind blanks. I can feel energy moving in my body. Pumping from a core that looks like a dungeon, a black hole, in my chest. For a moment I regain thought just to complain. Oh come on, really? Once again there is no thought. I simply watch as a thick black liquid/gas works its way through metaphysical veins.
There are 5 of these huge arteries that spread from my core. The core being located in the spot where my physical heart is. One goes straight up through my heart and to my brain. There are tiny capillaries that spread out from the main artery and reach for any surrounding tissue. There are two more that go left and right, one goes to my left arm the other to my right. Once more capillaries spread out to any surrounding tissue and strengthen them. The last two spread out to my left and right leg going down to my feet. At my palms, feet, and brain there are large nodes that the arteries connect to. I push on the node in my right palm and a black mist of energy comes out.
*Ding* What the fuck. I mean congratulations you have earned Void Manipulation. You are the first mortal to gain this skill. Freak.
+4 MAS
Harsh. The notification took me out of my meditation. Damn that’s weird, it's like there’s a Void vain system in my body, and why the hell do I have a black hole in my chest. Weirder still is that I can tell that’s what’s making all the void I use. It’s like a reactor for magic, and I have to admit that’s sick as hell. I feel a pulse from my Void buddy again. I told it to wait a second because I couldn’t keep calling it Void buddy, It needs a name. How about as a fuck you to Iva name it Valin and then I name my self something else. Hah yeah I’m gonna do that.
So what should I name myself hmm. I try to just say what first comes to mind from my subconscious.
“Xylophone!” I shout
For some reason I don’t think it’s a very good name. It sounds rad as fuck though, how can it be a bad name? Why do I feel like such an idiot? I guess I’ll just wait until I have a better idea. From the corner of my eye I see stones move like liquid and a sign comes from nowhere. Huh so that’s what that looks like. The sign says ‘Hard coming up with a name isn’t it? How about I name you Sylen, it means spiteful in elvish, Dickhead.’
Just to piss off Iva I roll with it. From now on I’m Sylen, I even like how that sounds. I feel a pulse from Valin again. It seems impatient. Sorry for getting caught up in the moment, what did you want to show me? My mind blanks again and I feel Valin for the first time. From my core I can feel its, or rather his, conscience. It seems he hasn’t fully become aware yet, but I can tell he will soon. He just needs some time to wake up.
I can tell this isn’t what Valin wanted to show me so I ignore that revelation for now, and I watch what he intended for me to see in the first place. From the arteries and their offshoots I see void leaking out and reinforcing my organs and muscles. I can tell that this is making me stronger. Earlier when I climbed up that wall something similar to this happened but it must have been much more energy than this. Ugh I feel terrible. This is strange, it’s as if a part of my body I’ve never felt is sore.
*Ding* Holy shit. Congrats you, or maybe I should say Valin, earned Passive Void Reinforcement. Normally reinforcing your body with your element takes skill, but with a whole other being inside you to take care of it who needs skill! Oh and fuck it since you already figured it out here’s the congrats on figuring out Active Void Reinforcement. Goddamn cheaters. Oh and for the love of god I was giving you time to figure it out on your own, but I said I would give you a system to see your progress. Hint Hint say ‘status’. I thought you earthlings were supposed to be good at this reincarnation thing.
+3 AGI +3 STR +3 END +3 VIT +1.5 CHA oops no decimals for attributes, gotta round that down +1 CHA I'll go ahead and do that automatically in the future for ya.
That was one hell of an info dump. Um status?
Sylen
Affinities:
Basic: Fire(Sovereign), Earth(pitiful)
Advanced: Magma(Strong) Spacetime(Sovereign)
Primordial: Void (ranking does not apply to Primordial elements)
Attention, due to the presence of void changing your body and soul, you are no longer able to channel previous affinities.
HAHA You can’t have everything! I was gonna get bored if you got overpowered too quickly!
Cultivation/Warrior Stage, Wait goddamn it these are supposed to be in different categories! Fine, you know what? You get a different breakdown from everyone else. I guess Mr. Special boy over here is too good to only pick one. Tsk tsk tsk, now what to name it? Hmmmmmm. I got it! Cultiwarrior, elegant, graceful, combines both terms beautifully, don’t you think? No? Damn. uhhhhh. OK, I GOT IT! Champion, It fits perfectly as your my champion and quite frankly I’ve already spent too much time thinking about it. Now be a good champion and don’t complain.
Champion Rank: Novice, 3
Stage: Novice/pseudogod,
Level: 1(3)
Health:110
Health Regeneration: 12.6hp/h
Stamina: 100
Stamina Regeneration: 76.2sp/m
Void: 300
Void Regeneration: 2.2mp/s
Vitality 11
Endurance 10
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Strength 13
Dexterity 14
Intelligence ∞/30
Wisdom ∞/21
Mastery 15
Perception 12
Charm 9/(-50%) 4
Skills
Darksight
Climbing
Swordsmanship
Void Manipulation
Void Reinforcement (Active)(Passive)
Here’s a quick, or well I guess not that quick, status breakdown from ya boi, the strongest being in the universes, or maybe just this one. This is gonna be pretty long because I didn’t expect the full effect the void would have on you. My bad, or I guess our bad based on what you're gonna learn soon heh.
Affinities are pretty obvious, it's what you're good at, or in this case what Valin is good at. Considering your relationship with him maybe I should give you the freeloader skill. Now for the striked affinities. The reason I chose you in the first place was because you had an amazing fire affinity, the best I had ever seen. That didn’t exactly work out but hey, now your way more overpowered, theoretically at least.
Warrior and Cultivation stages are separate, or at least normally they are. Weirdo. Anyway, cultivation is determined by your comprehension of your element, and the strength of your core. Warrior levels are determined by how much you have reinforced your soul with essence, and how much you have reinforced your body with your element. Now you may not have noticed, but because of your weird ass void shenanigans I have to change all this shit up. NORMALLY, cultivation is measured in stages, novice, beginner, yada yada yada, and warriors are measured in levels. Because of your weird symbiotic relationship I had to give you both systems. Bastard. Oh by the way you should think of your stage and level as completely separate; They do not affect each other. What was I saying again?
Oh yeah, your core is a black hole of Void that produces its own energy and you have a conscience inside you that literally is void. You, or rather Valin, have literally comprehended more than should be possible while remaining mortal. Therefore, pseudogod… technically. You goddamn cheater. The novice rank is your actual rank; you may be a pseudogod TECHNICALLY but that’s because you're an edge case, you meet the bare minimum requirements and that should be impossible. We never thought it would be possible for a mortal to… you know what? You don’t understand half of what I'm saying so I’m just gonna let you figure it out when you get there. Just know that your rank doesn’t mean shit and you could get your ass kicked by a dwarven peasant. Plus Valin awakened like 2 hours ago so you can’t go expecting him to blow up planets or anything. The void isn’t known for just exploding people anyway. It's more the type to slowly erode someone’s psyche until… you know what nevermind. Pseudogod at 2,025 years old… ridiculous.
For your warrior level it's how far your body has been reinforced with your element plus the strength of your soul. You just need to sit still, and eventually your body will be fully reinforced. For people who aren’t freaks this is impossible. Although this seems like a boon it is also a bane, as your body will outpace your soul. Your soul can’t handle the strain of your body’s metaphysical weight without reinforcement. Again, NORMALLY this is impossible, because a direct byproduct of a warrior tempering their body the typical way reinforces their soul as well. Right now your body is only lightly outpacing your soul, but trust me when I say you don’t want to know what happens if you go up and reach a milestone level. PSST, that’s level 10.
How do you strengthen your soul? Easy! Just kill monsters and destroy dungeons! They drop a fragment of collected darkness that contains their essence that you just need to absorb. Easy peasy.
Now for the stats, these are pretty obvious so I’ll try to keep it short.
Vitality: This is how tough you are. How many hits before you get knocked down and how resistant you are to getting cut. The body mirrors the soul and yours is weak as shit right now so don’t go getting hit.
Endurance: This is your stamina. How far you can run without getting winded, and how far you can push your limits.
Strength: This is how hard you can punch and how much you can carry, though remember it affects all parts of the body. That means that although agility makes you run faster, strength makes it so you go further in a single stride.
Dexterity: How fast you run and how much finesse you have maneuvering your body. Who needs Vitality when you can just not get hit!
Intelligence: This is normally how much mana you have. You don’t have mana and you have a black hole for a core that can store nearly infinite void. Goddamn cheater. You better thank your lucky stars for Valin. Although you technically have infinite, which is part of why you're a pseudogod you can really only effectively use about twice your mastery. trying to harvest the power of a literal fucking black hole without sufficient control is a... bad Idea. You do you though. Effective Intelligence formula. Int=(MAS)2 I don't know why I'm giving you a formula for number times two, but I hope this shows how little faith I have in you.
Wisdom: Second verse same as the first, you filthy cheater. This is normally mana regen or how much you absorb from the atmosphere. You produce your own. Honestly fucking ridiculous. The amount of effective regeneration you can use is limited by you're Vitality and Endurance, again NORMALLY cultivators aren't limited by there other atributes, you on the other hand are drawing from a fucking black hole, maybe be gental on your body with that, even if Valin can handle it just fine. I mean you caaan draw more than what's safe, I'm not your mom, just don't go crying to me when you implode. effective wisdom formula just for your little baby brain. I even made it real simple for ya. Wis=(Vit+End)
Mastery: Now we get to an area of mana, or void, that you aren’t completely fucking overpowered in, and some would argue it’s the most important! This is your control of the void and your ability to manipulate it. Thank god this is low or you may have just been able to balance the world by just destroying it, and worst of all it wouldn’t have been entertaining! Or only mildly entertaining. Okay it would be pretty entertaining.
Perception: This is how perceptive you are, it lets you notice minor details and sense your surroundings better.
Charm: This is, shocker, how charming you are. It affects how much people like you, and how strong your presence is. You uh… may have a disadvantage in this category.
Anyway here's your finished stat sheet. Took me awhile so you better appreciate it. I spent like a whole seven seconds on this, do you know how many people would sacrifice their firstborn for seven seconds of my time? Too many, it honestly gets annoying. Pfft, they honestly think their firstborns are worth even a second of my time. Anyway I gotta go, Peace.
Name: Sylen Affinities- fundamental: Fire(Sovereign), Earth(pitiful),
Spacetime(Sovereign)
Fusion: Magma(Strong)
Primordial: Void. Void does not have an internal ranking. Only those with a deep connection to Void can use it in the first place.
Champion Rank
Stage: Novice/Pseudogod
Level: Soul 1 Body 3
Resources:
Health:110
Health Regeneration: 12.6hp/h
Stamina: 100
Stamina Regeneration: 76.2sp/m
Void: 300
Void Regeneration: 2.2mp/s
Attributes:
Vitality 11
Endurance 10
Strength 13
Dexterity 14
Intelligence ∞/30
Wisdom ∞/21
Mastery 15
Perception 12
Charm 9/(-50%) 4
Skills:
Darksight (Legendary)(Passive)
Climbing (Basic) (Passive)
Swordsmanship (Basic) (Passive)
Void Manipulation (Basic) (Passive)
Void Reinforcement (Active)(Passive)
Colors are rarity: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Scarce, Very Rare, Unique. Rarity is not the end all be all, it's just how many people have the skill. Don't get a big head because you have two unique skills, you're just the only mortal with Void.
I was gonna tell you how all this void shit happened at the end of this, but It’s more fun if you find out naturally. Oh I can’t wait, you’re gonna be PISSED HAHAHA.